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A. CHRIST. BEDSTEAD.

No. 561,489. Patented June 2, 1896.

IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST CHRIST, OF GREENE, GERMANY.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,489, dated June 2, 1896.

Application filed October 25, 1898. Serial No. 489,072. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST CHRIST, residing at Greene, Brunswick, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object the construction and arrangement of a bedstead upon which the body may rest more comfortably than upon the spring-mattresses or spiral-wire mattresses, so called, now in common use.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a horizontal section of a bedstead made in accordance with my invention, but with the pillow and pillow support removed. Fig. 2 is a section through the line A B, Fig. 1, also with the pillow removed. Figs. 3, 4i, and 5 illustrate in detail rollerbearing plates, disk-bearing pin and plate, and pillow -rest, respectively. Fig. 6 is a somewhat similar view to Fig. 2, but with the line of section taken so as to show the pillow and nflow-support.

In carrying this invention into effect I construct an ordinary bedstead-frame, preferablyof wood, and within this frame on either side in the direction of length I provide a wooden roller c1. of a convenient diameter, which I mount in bearings 1 and 1 (shown in detail at Fig. 3,) let into the pillars at the head and foot ends of the bed-frame, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Upon these rollers I mount and secure a length of stout canvas or sailcloth Z), which partly covers each of the rollers. I mount a small disk or pulley c in the center of each end of the frame upon a pin or bolt secured thereto and at a corresponding height from the floor. I connect these 40 small disks 0 with each of the rollers a at opposing ends by leather or hemp belts d, capable of being adjusted as to length by buckles, and upon each of these disks I rigidly secure a rod 6, to which I attach weights or pendula f.

Upon a person lying thereon the canvas acts as a spring against the action of the pendula or weighted rods f, communicated through the belts d, and allows the body to rest comfortably in the elastic depression formed thereby.

' Upon one end of the frame I mount a bar g in a position indicated in Fig. 2, and to this bar I secure the ends of the spiral springs h, attached to the canvas 2' 2', Fig. 5, which I employ as a pillow-rest. I attach straps to the opposite end of the canvas 1' i, which I secure to the buckles Z- Z on the main bedsteadcanvas. The canvas i '5 is then in a suitable inclined position for receiving the pillow.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A bedstead having in combination two rollers arranged within a frame and a canvas secured thereon, a belt secured to each roller at one end and at the other to a disk suitably pivoted in the frame of the bedstead, said disk being provided with weighted rods or pendula which gradually counteract the weight of the person upon the canvas, said canvas being held continuously taut and el astic, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUST CHRIST. Witnesses Orro STUMPF, PETER M. ANDREWS. 

